MANILA - The total number of people who died due to COVID-19 in the Philippines surpassed the 36,000-mark with 277 newly confirmed fatalities, the health department said Thursday.
This, as the capital region shifted to an alert level system to still control the spread of virus infections but spur the pandemic-hit economy. The Department of Health said the day's deaths, the 8th highest announced so far according to ABS-CBN Data Analytics head Edson Guido, included 174 cases previously classified as recoveries. The Philippines now has 36,018 total COVID-related deaths, the DOH said. Its first fatality was recorded on Feb. 1, 2020 - a Chinese man who arrived days earlier from Wuhan City, China where the disease is believed to have first emerged.
New recoveries, meanwhile, climbed by 13,644 to 2,090,228. The total accounts for 90.7 percent of all recorded cases.Watch more on iWantTFC
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